Volume 56, Number 2 · February 12, 2009
The Loves of the Falcon
By Edmund White
BOOKS BY AND ABOUT GLENWAY WESCOTT DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
by Jerry Rosco
University of Wisconsin Press, 306 pp., $29.95
The Grandmothers
with an introduction by Sargent Bush Jr.
University of Wisconsin Press, 388 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Goodbye, Wisconsin
with an introduction by Jerry Roscoe and illustrations by Steve Chappell
Borderland, 184 pp., $28.00
The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story
with an introduction by Michael Cunningham
New York Review Books, 108 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Apartment in Athens
with an introduction by David Leavitt
New York Review Books, 268 pp., $12.95 (paper)
I met Glenway Wescott in the fall of 1970. Richard Howard and I were spending a weekend with Coburn Britton, the founding editor of Prose, a thick, beautifully produced 'little' magazine that was publishing reminiscences and meditations by Wescott. 'Coby' had an old apple farm in New Jersey where we were staying, not far from Haymeadows, where the whole Wescott clan was living. Glenway's handsome brother Lloyd had married a banking heiress, Barbara Harrison, and they'd bought the property. Lloyd and Barbara were in one house; Glenway was in another with his lover, Monroe Wheeler. Glenway and Lloyd's parents lived in yet another house. There were cooks and farmhands everywhere, though the atmosphere was casual and friendly.
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